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 FOURTH PERIOD 152 MACLELLAN S HOUSE hall is 10 feet 7 inches wide, with a huge stone lintel in one piece. At the back of the fireplace a spy-hole opens into a little closet, entering off the landing of the principal staircase, from which the proceedings in the hall might be secretly observed. We have seen in other houses similar contrivances for privately reconnoitring the ongoings in the principal apartments of a house. This floor also contains three good apartments, PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR FIG. 611. Maclellan's House. Plans. one being the private room, entering from the hall, and the others being probably bedrooms. On the upper floors the house is divided on plan into three parts, served by three wheel stairs, all of which begin on the first floor, separate entrance doors being thus provided to all the rooms. In addition, however, the rooms communicate through each other, there being no passages in the upper floors. The withdrawing-